Carolina has 20 new football players as of Wednesday, the class plucked and prodded from the recruiting stratosphere with tons of man hours of evaluation and salesmanship by the coaching staff and, as it so often turns out, a little help from their friends.
Jordan Tucker was a highly regarded offensive tackle from Roswell, Ga., still on the recruiting market in January after a de-commitment from an SEC blueblood, and the Tar Heels and offensive line coach Chris Kapilovic were trying to talk him into bumping a visit to another ACC school in favor of Chapel Hill.